My first time lapse video
If I’d been left to my own devices this would have been a lot louder and messier.So it was quite nice to work to someone else’s specifications. Namely Sarah Blood’s.
The hardest part for me was creating the credits using a subtitle function on my editing software, so they really were done frame by frame. I removed a lot of buzzing sound effects from them at the artist’s behest and replaced them with the soothing loop of cars at night time, which I hope emulate the rhythmic pounding of the sea, or something. All in all the weirdest part of animating words that flicker was in attempting to create something that appears arhythmic and chaotic, but creating it organically. working in two frame glimpses it’s a little like trying to dance off the beat or clap out of time. Your brain fights you every step.
All in all a satisfying experience, made all the more enjoyable by a subject matter which lends itself to photography, but I have a lot to learn about sound mixing and soundscape creation. Next time I might try to do something more daring with the motion shots, which ended up being my favourite part.
The glowing and darkening effect at the end was achieved, as you might have guessed, by taking pictures with long exposures and then reducing the exposure time incrementally to hundredths and thousandths of a second. this effect combined with lights in motion might have the potential to do something interesting or even create a special effect for use in narrative video. We’ll have to see.
anyways, please have a look at Sarah Blood’s other work, which is just as exciting as this brand new piece, which can be viewed at the ‘Creative Cohesion Glass Education Network’ studios in Sunniside, which is in Sunderland, which is in the UK, which is closer than you think.
ALSO: if anyone can offer me any advice on uploading videos to youtube so that they stay in HD then I could really use a minute of your time. The uncompressed file is almost three gigs and made of, like two thousand 12megapixel photos. It took around sixteen hours to upload to youtube uncompressed so why on earth it’s in 480p is quite beyond me. any words of wisdom? anyone..?
anyone..?
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